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3. Visiting infants' and girls' schools and colleges in
tion with outbreaks of infectious disease;
4. Visiting the houses of the poor (especially in the Inner
Districts), where the non-notifiable infectious diseases,
which attack chiefly infants and children, e.g., measles,
whooping cough, diarrhoea, etc., are known to exist, with
a view to pointing out the proper preventative measures
to be taken in connection therewith;
5. Working among the poor, especially in the Inner Wards
of the Parish, and assisting in the! advising of mothers
as to the feeding and caring of infants, and as to
domestic sanitation generally;
6. Visiting regularly tenemented houses, or houses let in
lodgings, which have been registered under the Byelaws;
7. Assisting in purchasing samples under the P'ood and
Drugs and Margarine Acts;
8. Carrying out such other duties as may be required from
time to time.
The Metropolitan Authorities who have already appointed
female Sanitary Inspectors are : —Kensington, St. Pancras, Southwark,
Hackney, Islington, Marylebone, Poplar, and the L.C.C.
It need only be added that a careful selection must be made to
secure a suitable and efficient officer of experience and tact; and
with this object in view, such a salary ought to be offered as to
prevent such an officer being appointed as a cheap man. The
higher the salary, the better chance of obtaining the services of a
suitable and experienced officer.